Unless a death is the proximate cause of the cessation of great harm, I cannot understand the impulse to celebrate: http://freethoughtblogs.com/iris/2017/05/18/well-this-certainly-cheered-me-up-roger-ailes-has-died/ …
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Rationally, it doesn't make sense that many people felt sad when Harper Lee died. But it's a pretty normal human reaction.
It's not the fact we have an emotional response I find odd. It's the *celebratory* response to death.
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For the record, my reaction to Ailes' death was not joy. It was an impulse to opine briefly on his life and work.
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And too many people subscribe to "de mortuo nihil nisi bene" principle, which I think is bunk when it comes to public figures.
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